The use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies can reduce test anxiety. To determine the extent to which this is done, a random sample of 610 female high school students was given two questionnaires on anxiety and learning/studying strategies. Data analyses revealed that the great majority of the sampled students (over 87%) are suffering from moderate to high levels of anxiety, with the worrying component playing a stronger role than the excitability component. Just as the metacognitive strategies are better predictors than the cognitive ones. Nevertheless, students using these strategies experience less test anxiety.